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Featured Fighters


Eliot Kelly

This month we caught up with Eliot Kelly 1. How old are you? 30 2. How long have you been training in Brazilian Jiujitsu? First Gi class was July of 2008 3. What is your academy name? I teach and train at El Dorado Hills Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. […]

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Charlene Coats

What got you into Brazilian JiuJitsu? -After seeing an exhibition fight night in my home town of Half Moon Bay featuring my instructor Raul Castillo, I was highly motivated to start training jiu jitsu and use it as a cross train for my preparations on entering into […]

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The Torres Family

This month we caught up with a family of fighters -Reuben, Quincy, Shane, & Sonny Torres- How long have you guys been training Jiu Jitsu and wrestling? Shane and Sonny started wrestling in middle school and both have been training BJJ about 2 ½ years. Reuben & […]

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Tyson Kamp

Tyson Kamp exchanged his Tae Kwon Do kimono for a BJJ gi in 1995 after watching Royce Gracie dominate the early UFCs.  The “Vanilla Gorilla” trained at a few bay area schools,  settled in at Claudio França’s jiu jitsu academy in San Jose, California, and earned his black […]

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Chris Balthazer

We are very proud to have Chris Balthasar as our first featured fighter.  He is a great competitor and training partner out of Claudio Franca Santa Cruz and represents Coalition95 when competing. When did you start training? I first discovered BJJ in 1993, at the original Gracie […]

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